Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...placement of troops and the role of United Nations forces, and Israeli navigation rights in the Gulf of Suez. Egypt and Israel had also reached a meeting of minds on the future of two Israeli-built airbases in Sinai and the number and size of Egyptian fortifications in the desert peninsula...
...Game also went on. Still in upper case letters, still each November entered into the microcosmic sporting tradition of the Harvards and the Yales. And as each Game passed, the distance grew between the oasis and the desert lined with generations of tailgate picnics...
Under way since the early 1970s, the feeding program is the centerpiece of an Israeli effort to protect endangered desert species and repopulate the land of the Bible with the animals that inhabited it during ancient times. Thus even such creatures as jackals and wolves, which are anathema to farmers, enjoy the benefits of government largesse. Says Zoologist Giora Ilany, 40: "If these animals are not saved, this country would look like the face of the moon...
...scarcity of water and foliage in the wasteland has always sharply limited its animal population. But the recent exploitation of the desert has added to the environmental pressures on wildlife. Israeli officials estimate that the hyena population, about 200 in the 1950s, had been reduced to less than 100 by 1970, largely because of encounters with speeding automobiles. Wolves faced a more subtle adversary; while raiding the garbage dumps of kibbutzim (collective farms), they often consumed fatal doses of pesticides. The otter population declined because of pollution of the desert's few rivers, while the Nubian ibex fell...
...feeding stations cannot save all the desert's endangered species; only the more aggressive carnivores will use them. Officials must also avoid leaving too much food, lest the animals stop fending for themselves. Still, the program seems to be succeeding. Recent estimates by the authority show a healthy increase in the populations of all 13 species that use the stations...